The composer Gustav Mahler died of having loved her too much, painter Oskar Kokoschka was unable to get over losing her his whole life long, architect Walter Gropius was a plaything in her hands, and poet Franz Werfel wrote: "She is one of the very few magical women who exist!" Contemporaries disrespectfully called her "The Widow of the 4 Arts", refering to music, architecture, painting and literature: this was a hand with four aces.